Catalog / International Monetary Fund — Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Expense

imf_gfse

International Monetary Fund — Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Expense

Name: International Monetary Fund — Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Expense
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)

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Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Expense

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

48,750

Temporal coverage

1972-01-01 – 2024-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Expense
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:GFSE
Provider terms: https://www.imf.org/en/about/copyright-and-terms

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Expense. Retrieved from https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:GFSE. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download imf_gfse series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_gfse
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Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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